EGAVE

express

About 35.66 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
  2. adjective Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.
    I gave him express instructions not to begin until I arrived, but he ignored me.
  3. adjective Truly depicted; exactly resembling.
    In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance.
  4. adjective Providing a more limited but presumably faster service than a full or complete dealer of the same kind or type.
    Tesco Express
  5. noun A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly, either on a regular schedule or as a special or excursion. Express trains often pass through stations along the way without stopping at them.
    I took the express into town.
  6. noun a public utility vehicle, typically a jeepney, that traverses through an expressway
  7. noun A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.
  8. noun An express rifle.

Similar words

express train expressage carry convey state extract press out show evince utter

Often followed by

the their his my a it themselves our and

Word family

expressed expresser expressers expresses expressible expressing

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